To The Committee Of The Cayley Portrait Fund Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFEE GGHIIH JJBKKL| O wretched race of men to space confined | A |
| What honour can ye pay to him whose mind | A |
| To that which lies beyond hath penetrated | B |
| The symbols he bath formed shall sound his praise | C |
| And lead him on through unimagined ways | C |
| To conquests new in worlds not yet created | B |
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| First ye Determinants in ordered row | D |
| And massive column ranged before him go | D |
| To form a phalanx for his safe protection | E |
| Ye powers of the nth roots of | F |
| Around his head in ceaseless cycles run | E |
| As unembodied spirits of direction | E |
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| And you ye undevelopable scrolls | G |
| Above the host wave your emblazoned rolls | G |
| Ruled for the record of his bright inventions | H |
| Ye Cubic surfaces by threes and nines | I |
| Draw round his camp your seven and twenty lines | I |
| The seal of Solomon in three dimensions | H |
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| March on symbolic host with step sublime | J |
| Up to the flaming bounds of Space and Time | J |
| There pause until by Dickenson depicted | B |
| In two dimensions we the form may trace | K |
| Of him whose soul too large for vulgar space | K |
| In n dimensions flourished unrestricted | L |
James Clerk Maxwell
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